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Cotton, Miss Barbara.—She contributed 3 plates to the 
Transactions of the Horticultural Society, v. t. 12, 15, 18 in 
1824, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1815-1822, 
when her address seems to have been Chicheley, Newport Pagnell. 
Curtis, John. —Curtis was born in Norwich in the year 1791, 
and in early life did much work, both drawing and engraving, 
for the Horticultural and Linnean Societies. After the defec- 
tion of Sydenham Edwards he worked for the ‘‘ Botanical 
Magazine’ for some seven volumes. He was chiefly celebrated 
for his ‘‘ Illustrations of British Entomology,’’ 770 plates, and 
for many years he made a special study of insects injurious to 
farm and garden produce for the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’’ under 
the pseudonym “‘ Ruricola.’’ He was elected a Fellow of the Lin- 
nean Society in 1820, and died in Islington in 1862. 
Duncanson, Thomas.—He was a young gardener from the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, and was employed by W. T. 
Aiton in 1822 to draw the plants in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
e continued to do this until the summer of 1826, when he un- 
fortunately became insane. He made upwards of 300 drawings 
which are in the Kew collection. 
Edwards, John, Fellow of the Society of Arts (flourished 
1768-95.—He supplied the text and plates of the ‘“‘ British 
Herbal,’’ 1775, and of his ‘‘ Collection of Flowers,’’ 1795. 
Edwards, Sydenham.—Born at Abergavenny in 1769. 
Register,’ with the assistance of J. Bellenden Ker. He brought 
out the ‘“‘New Botanic Garden,’’ 1805-7, and was elected a 
Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1804. The Genus Edwardsia 
was named after him. He died and was buried at Chelsea in 
Vebruary, 1819 (1822?).. 
Stuartia, in Sir Arthur Church’s collection is one of the finest 
examples of his work. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal 
Society in 1857, : 
